Over 25,000 candidates will write the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for only 6,500 admission spaces into the University of Jos. This figure represented only those who scored 180 points and above in the UTME and chose University of Jos as their first choice..

A total of 25,700 candidates are jostling for 6,500 slots in the 2015 post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination screening of the University of Jos.

This was disclosed by Jilli Damdam, the UniJos Registrar.

The registrar explained that the school would have admitted only 4,500 but for recent increase in the carrying capacity of the university by the National Universities Commission.

Damdam said: “We had nine faculties and three new ones were approved for the school.

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